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Lots of places sell refurbished off-lease computers for $100 or less (the place I've dealt with is http://www.intechraoutlet.com ). You can buy a refurbished off-lease monitor for about the same amount. So you really can build a complete Linux system for just over $200 with shipping.

I recently took out a rather old Compaq, with a 250 MHz Cyrix processor. I put Tiny Core on it, hooked up an old monitor, and for $0 I had a working computer. Tiny Core works great, though YouTube is a bit much for it. For visiting LXer, checking email, or typing in Abiword, it works great.

Oh the gratuitous Windows-bashing! Come on folks, Windows is capable of all kinds of things. It can boot. Sometimes. It provides a warm, welcoming, fertile environment for homeless malware. How many of you would adopt a nasty little Trojan horse, or an unlovely virus? Ha! I bet none of you. So there you are. Right there, there, and there.

Tuxxy: Are you saying that we will know when the Linux desktop has arrived -- it will be able to run a test suite of Malware products, viruses? I can hear it now "The Linux desktop has arrived! Linux now capable of running Gator!"

Several years ago, Robin Miller (co-founder of Slashdot) tried to infect a Linux system with several Windows malwares. When he failed miserably, he said Linux must not be a very capable system. All tongue-in-cheek, of course.